NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
CONTENTS
THE INTEREST GAUGE
THE GARDENER'S GUIDE
VANISHING FAVORITES
BY TELEPHONE
A LITERARY MEET
"THE DESERT ISLAND TEST"
THE CONVERSATION ROOM
THE LITERARY ZOO
THEIR JUST REWARD
THE CROWDED HOUR
TO A SMALL LIBRARY PATRON
BY-WAYS AND HEDGES
MULCH
A BOOKMAN'S ARMORY
INDEX
THE LIBRARIAN AT PLAY
BY
EDMUND LESTER PEARSON
AUTHOR OF "THE OLD LIBRARIAN'S ALMANACK" "THE LIBRARY AND THE LIBRARIAN"
BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1911
By Small, Maynard and Company
(INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers' Hall
Published, November, 1911 Second Printing, March, 1912
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
TO MY MOTHER